Music is the shorthand of emotion.
-Leo Tolstoy
Quotations
Music
In music, the passions enjoy themselves.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
"Beyond Good and Evil"
Tragedy absorbs the highest musical ecstasies, and thus brings music to a state of true perfection.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.
-Luciano Pavarotti
Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.
-Jimmy Buffett "A Pirate Looks at Fifty"
Any good music must be an innovation
-Les Baxter
Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
-Voltaire
Anything can become music if listened to long enough.
-Jeff Noon
A good country song takes a page out of someone's life and puts it into music.
-Conway Twitty
I didn't just hear music. It seemed as if I were part of the music.
-Don Piper
"90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death & Life"
